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Program Director

Turion Space

Skills

Required

  • managing prime programs
  • SpDA industry / RPO missions
  • Microsoft Project
  • full design cycle
  • AI&T
  • launch integration

Preferred

  • surveillance / reconnaissance / NEI
  • LEO / GEO
  • RPO
  • master schedules
  • spacecraft design

Join Turion Space as a Program Director, where you will lead a portfolio of spacecraft missions and be the primary interface with government customers. You will be responsible for program planning, execution, and delivery, as well as managing program teams and external supplier relationships. This role requires extensive experience in program management, specifically in the space domain awareness industry or rendezvous proximity operations missions.

Lead a portfolio of programs across their entire lifecycle, from proposal to closeout, ensuring successful execution and delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary interface with government customers, cultivating relationships and representing the company in all program-related matters.
  • Develop program execution strategies, master schedules, and detailed program plans, coordinating across all internal functions to meet contractual and technical requirements.
  • Deep technical understanding of spacecraft design executing RPO and Non-Earth Imaging (NEI) of Resident Space Objects (RSOs)
  • Proven success managing programs through all lifecycle phases: proposal, capture, planning, execution, delivery, and closeout
  • Prior experience in a chief engineering role highly desired, with an emphasis in systems engineering, mission engineering, mission architect, or astrodynamics

Requirements

Ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance

  • Experience managing prime programs with budgets of $100M+ and teams of 40+ full-time equivalents
  • 10+ years of experience in program management, mission management, or chief engineering, specifically in the SpDA industry or RPO missions
  • Proficient in Microsoft Project or similar scheduling tools
  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Ability to travel up to 25%

  • Strong communication, leadership, mentorship, and stakeholder management skills
  • This role is expected to be on-site, hybrid work can be acceptable
  • Previous experience working in a high paced startup environment
  • Extensive experience in early mission concept definition, full design cycle, AI&T, launch integration, and mission operations
  • Active TS/SCI clearance
  • Experience in rapid prototyping and hardware fielding environments

Preferred

  • Experience working on LEO or GEO surveillance, reconnaissance, or NEI programs

Pay

USD 225,000 - 250,000